News tagged with isotopic elements
Peruvian stalagmites a new basis for 'Inconvenient truth'?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Will the Netherlands that is dominated by water succumb to the 'Inconvenient Truth' predicted by Al Gore? Dutch researcher Martin van Breukelen analysed stalagmites from the South American Amazon tributaries in Peru. He used ...
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Diamonds reveal deep source of platinum deposits
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2008 |
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The world's richest source of platinum and related metals is an enigmatic geological structure in South Africa known as the Bushveld Complex. This complex of ancient magmas is known to have formed some two ...
Lavas from Hawaiian volcano contain fingerprint of planetary formation
Jun 19, 2008 |
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Hikers visiting the Kilauea Iki crater in Hawaii today walk along a mostly flat surface of sparsely vegetated basalt. It looks like parking lot asphalt, but in November and December 1959, it emitted the orange ...
New proxy reveals how humans have disrupted the nitrogen cycle
Jun 04, 2009 |
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More and more, scientists are getting a better grip on the nitrogen cycle. They are learning about sources of nitrogen and how this element changes as it loops from the nonliving, such as the atmosphere, soil ...
Extraterrestrial platinum was 'stirred' into the Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research program aimed at using platinum as an exploration guide for nickel has for the first time been able to put a time scale on the planet’s large-scale convection processes.
Researchers find quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it's the summer grass that tickles your feet or the red Bordeaux smacking on your palette, nearly every part of the world around you carries special chemical markers. These markers, ...
Fledgling mantle plume may be cause of African volcano's unique lava
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nyiragongo, an active African volcano, possesses lava unlike any other in the world, which may point toward its source being a new mantle plume says a University of Rochester geochemist. The ...
Early agriculture left traces in animal bones
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Unraveling the origins of agriculture in different regions around the globe has been a challenge for archeologists. Now researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences report finding evidence of ear ...
Scientists find that Earth and Mars are different to the core
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2007 |
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Research comparing silicon samples from Earth, meteorites and planetary materials, published in Nature (28th June 2007), provides new evidence that the Earth’s core formed under very different conditions from those that e ...
Moon geology could solve three mysteries of early Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not much is known about the Earth before 4 billion years ago, the earliest period in the planet’s 4.5-billion-year history. Because Earth has lost almost all geological records of this era ...
Meteorites Study: Mars, Earth, Moon Grew Up In Unique Planetary Nursery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2008 |
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A study of meteorites suggests that Mars, the Earth and the Moon share a common composition from ‘growing up’ in a unique planetary nursery in the inner solar system. The finding could lead to a rethink of ...
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